1 March (Part 1) - Fibre future
A
month ago Bexley Council announced that it had
applied for a grant to provide public buildings with Gigabyte internet
connections. In other words it is not for you, not yet anyway.
The initiative has been given wide publicity in the technical press.
Click image for source website.
Perhaps of greater general interest is that the Council wants its planned 31,000
new homes to have a choice of ultra-fast internet providers. Since it will be up
to 30 years before those homes arrive maybe Gigabyte fibre internet will be very
much old technology by then.
Think Broadband report.
Council Press Release.